American Jewish History

Ronald Gomes Casseres descends from Sephardic Jews who first landed in Curaçao in 1690. He was born and lived most of his life on that Dutch Caribbean island. He has served the historic Mikvé Israel-Emanuel community for over forty years and continues to be a leading member of the community. He has been active in numerous social, youth-care, business, nature conservation and cultural organizations and institutions in Curaçao. Now retired, one of his interests is the history of his Jewish community and its practices, and the documentation and the preservation of that heritage.

Max Modiano Daniel is the public historian and Jewish Heritage Collection coordinator at the College of Charleston. He specializes in the history of Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews in the United States. He also co-hosts and produces El Ponte, a podcast about Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) language and culture.

Ellen Eisenberg is the Dwight and Margaret Lear Professor of American History at Willamette University. Her published work includes The First to Cry Down Injustice? Western Jews and Japanese Removal during WWII and two volumes on the history of Jews in Oregon, titled Embracing a Western Identity: Jewish Oregonians, 1849-1950 and The Jewish Oregon Story, 1950-2015. She is the editor of Jewish Identities in the American West: Relational Perspectives, which appeared in the Brandeis University Press Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life in the fall of 2022.

Aviad Moreno is a faculty member at the Ben-Gurion Research Institute at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and the head of the research hub 'Communities and Mobilities' at the Azrieli Center for Israel Studies. He is a co-editor of The Long History of Mizrahim: New Directions in the Study of Jews from Islamic Countries (Ben-Gurion University Press, 2021), and the author of Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas: Hispanic Moroccan Jews and Their Globalizing Community (Indiana University Press, 2024)

Devin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies, associate professor of history, and faculty at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. His first book, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece, was published by Stanford University Press in 2016. The book won the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Research Based on Archival Material and was named a finalist in Sephardic Culture. It also won the 2017 Edmund Keeley Prize for best book in Modern Greek Studies awarded by the Modern Greek Studies Association.

James Benjamin Nadel is a PhD candidate in history at Columbia University, where he is writing his dissertation about Jewish merchants in late imperial Russia. He was the 2021-22 ASEEES Cohen Tucker Fellow and has written for In Geveb, Vashti, and Sephardic Horizons.

Roy Orel Shukrun is a Joint PhD candidate at McGill University and the University of Groningen researching transnational migration and the emergence of a global Moroccan Jewish diaspora in the twentieth century, with particular attention to communities in Quebec, Canada as well as Israel's periphery. Shukrun is a member of the Islamic World section of MALI, an interdisciplinary research hub at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev which studies the histories of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa. He is also the author of a chapter in a forthcoming edited volume which examines the Moroccan AIU teachers' union role in Moroccan decolonization and Jewish migration.

Matthew Warshawsky is professor of Spanish at the University of Portland, where he teaches all levels of Spanish, including classes on Medieval and Golden Age Spanish literature and Iberian and Latin American Jewish literature and culture. He is the author of The Perils of Living the Good and True Law: Iberian Crypto-Jews in the Shadow of the Inquisition of Colonial Hispanic America (Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs, 2016) and co-edited, with James A. Parr, Don Quixote: Interdisciplinary Connections (Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs, 2013).

Book Reviews

Michael Brenner is distinguished professor of history at American University where he serves as the Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies. He also holds the chair of Jewish History and Culture at Ludwig...